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This just in from Ars Technica, "Claire McCaskill, the Democratic senator from Missouri, says police departments nationwide should require their officers wear body cameras in order to qualify for the hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding they receive each year." You read that right, the Senator wants to tie federal money that police agencies currently receive to compliance with this

@spreadys pointed out an interesting article about the role CCTV has in fighting crime. The best part of the article are the comments at the bottom. The best one, "I'm sorry, but bragging about 500 arrests from 41,000 incidents is truly pathetic. It just shows how useless CCTV is. If the incidents took place in front of a copper, the arrest rate would have been worth crowing about. People aren't

If you're in the NYC area, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law will play host on Sept. 10th to the WSF's Science of Justice discussion/presentation. They use the events in Ferguson to put the spotlight on "forensics," but miss an important point: none of the presenters are experts in digital video or small device forensics. It's a given, these days, that there will be two elements to every

The online site, bellingcat, recently announced results from their crowdsourced investigation into the location of the Islamic State's training site in Iraq. It's an interesting study in the use of publicly available sources to identify the location depicted in photos through visual content analysis, as opposed to relying on metadata. Check it out here.

Many folks use Adobe's Acrobat to share reports, images, and video. Often times, we're asked to extract the images from a PDF file for use elsewhere. Depending on the downsampling settings, the images in a PDF might not work well outside of the document. Here's how to check the resolution of the image within the PDF file. If you have Acrobat Pro, you can use the Object Inspector in Output

I hope you're ready to retrieve DME from another type of recorder. GM recently announced that the new Corvette will feature on-board video/data recording as part of a performance data recorder and navigation system package that is a $1,795 add-on to the $53,995 base price of the Corvette. In the future, when investigation a burglary/theft from a motor vehicle, or a vehicle theft, you may be

Bad news. "FourMatch has been discontinued and is no longer available for purchase. Existing customers will be provided with free updates to the signature database through the end of 2014." Fourandsix directs you to their Izitru web site. But LE folks aren't going to upload their evidence to the cloud. So that's it. Good news. Amped Software's Authenticate is still going strong.